Alex S. Jones

Alex S. Jones, "Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in the Press and Public Policy, is Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. He covered the press for the New York Times from 1983 to 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. In 1991, he coauthored (with Susan E. Tifft) The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty, which BusinessWeek magazine selected as one of the best business books of the year. In 1992, he left the Times to work on The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times (also coauthored with Tifft), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in biography. He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, a host of National Public Radio's On the Media, and host and Executive Editor of PBS's Media Matters. He is on the boards of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, International Center for Journalists, Foundation of the Society of Professional Journalists, Harvard Magazine, Nieman Foundation, Black Mountain Institute, the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet, and other professional organizations."


 * Advisory Council, Center on International Media Assistance
 * Press Commission, American Institutions of Democracy